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Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
BOGUS GROWN JEWELS.
A Fob Put Up ON Buyers by French
Officials.

Paris Letter to Chicago Tribune.l
The sale of the crown jewels was largely
fraudulent, writes Adolph Houssaye from
Paris to the Chicago Tribune. That is to say,
they were not, in many cases, the crown
jewels at all. A syndicate OF Paris jew ellers
got into a conspiracy with some of the gov
ernment officers in charge of the sale and
had great number OF ordinary gems taken
from their stores, mixed in and sold with
the crown jewels. Thus they brought far
more than their ordina ry value. This job
was, of course, facilit ated by the breaking
up of the crown jewels, selling the stones
separately, and melting down the gold.
The detectives stated that the spurious
jewels thus sold brought more than l.
500, 900, f. which was nearly double what
they would have sold for on their own
merits. Some of these false Jewels have
been traced and their purchasers ascer-
tanned. A few of them went to America.
But the majority of them could not be dis
tinguished from the real crown jewels
among which theg were sold. The result
is that many purchasers will henceforth al
ways be in doubt whether their gems came
from the royal treasure-house of France
or from a rascally boulevard jewellers
shop.
This is the first count in the indictment.
Another is that many of the real crown
jewels were taken away altogether and sub
stitutes from the shops put in their places.
Several of the most famous gems were thus
purloined. they being stones that were
pecially precious to the house of Orleans.
1t is added by the detective that good
reason exists for believing that these gems
have already come into the hands of mem
bers of that house. If SO, the princes must
enjoy the ownership of them in private.
They would scarcely dare to let it be known
that they had stolen goods in their posses
sion. A third item in the report is this:
That some paste gems were sold in the col
lection. This fact came out very emphat-
ically only a few days after the sale. A
leading jeweler OF Paris called on the gov
ernment officers who conducted the sale.
Gentlemen" said he, ''you see this stonea
You identify it as one of the crown jewels9
You perceive from your records that it was
knocked down to me for 81 900! f. Very
we'll. But it is pastel" They examined it
and found his words true Who had stolen
the real gem and put this in its place could
not be ascertained. But to hush the matter
up they returned to the jeweller his 81 900. f..
t'lt would" dryly remarked the detective,
ssbe very unfortunate should this transaction
become generally known, for the government
would quickly be besieged by host of owners
of paste gems. all clsmoring for the return sf
money alleged to have been paid for them as
crown jewels"
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
RNING. OCTOBER 22, 1887.

are twenty five academies now, while there
were sixty-nine in 1860, but those which re-
main maintain better and higher standard
of education than ever before Thirty towns
have adopted the town system of schools, ,and
in forty-two the schools are graded. The
percentage of children of school age in at
tendance is sixty-fye, against seventy-two in
New Hampshire, eighty-three in Maine and
ninety in Massachusetts,; but in the latter
State the age limits are five and fifteen years,
while in Vermont they are five and twenty
years. The average pay of teachers is smaller
than in any northern State. recent inves-
tigator concludes that the district schools are
poorer than ever before, and less than half
the children of school age are in them and
that in many districts no regular school is
maintained. He also says that numerous
school houses are unfit for occupancy, and
starvation wages are paid teachers
The summer residence of the president of
the French republic is not a very imposing
affair. A writer in the Paris "Evenement"
says that it might well pass for the country
house of well-to-do village notary. 1t is an
unpretentious two storied building. The
bedrooms and the presidents study are on
the first floor, the corresponding space down
stairs being occupied by three rooms of far
from extravagant dimensions-the dining
room, the sale d'armes and the drawing
room, the furniture of which dates from
thirty years back at least, and is of the plain
est description. It opens on to the terrace in
front of the house, where Ne. Grevy regularly
spends his afternoons. He steps on to it the
moment the dinner is over, and after first in
dulging in the luxury of cup of coffee and
a pipe-for II. Grevy is quite as fond of a
pipe as the Due d. Aumale-he is accessible
to all comers. He chats freely with his Wis
itors, and if he meets a scholar among them
airs his stories of classical erudition, reciting
lines of Sophocles and Virgil-his favorite
ancient authors-by the hundred when he
fIds an appreciatiye auditor. "Early to bed
and early to rise" is the presidents motto,
and it is in the long mornings which his
matutinal habits place at his disposal that
he dispatches the bulk of his official bust
ness
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
Saturday, October %, ass,
THE HOME MARKET CLUB.


The protectionists of New England have
had no organization of general character to
which they could all belong and have their
principles advocated and agitated It is be-
lieved by some of them that the times de-
mand powerful organization of protection
lists to prevent the home market being cap
tured by foreign manufacturers through their
agents and undervaluations The surplus of
the United States treasury is to BE- reduced,
and the tariff under which that surplus is
produced is to be assailed. The tariff is to
be changed. The protectionists propose to
organize to see that whatever changes are
made are not prejudicial to the home market
being retained for home manufacturers
home capital, home enterprise and home
labor. Last April the Home Market club
was formed in Boston, but the sudden death
of its founder put check upon its develop
ment. 1t has, however, recently been decid-
ed to push this club and make it the rally
ing ground for all protectionists of New
England.
The first thing the club did was to eat This
it did the other day in Boston and listened to
remarks by Sentor Frye, who made speech
which satisfied the most ardent protectionist
who heard it. If the club works wisely it
can do good and needed work. 1t is cer-
tain that this country cannot afford to open
the home market Unfortunately to the
products of foreign lands. England has
been trying the experiment of throwing open
her markets to all comers, and the result is
to be seen in the depressed condition of Eng
lish trade, which finds itself unable to COM
pete with Belgian, Swiss and German pro-
ducers. The United States is not desirous
of having such an experience. But the mat
ter is to be handled very carefully. The
Providence Journal very properly remarks:
Now a tariff ought to be means of regulat-
ing the flow cf products between different
countries, not means of stopping it. It is
true that in providing for proper CONNER
cial interchange between our own and other
people we should be extremely careful not to
open the gates SO wide that we will be food
ed out by foreign competition. But it is also
true that in seeking to protect our home
markets for our own products we should not
forget that the home market cannot absorb
all our products. The surplus can only be
disposed of through foreign trade; and, un-
der proper regulations, the exchange of our
exports for the imports sent by other nations
can be made even more profitable to us than
to them. There is happy medium between
opening our home market, as England has
done to her sorrow, and closing it entirely
by prohibitive tariff.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
G. An old PhiIosophe,

IA IA VAN y AAAA - So ~ - - -
once said: IF we could
keep the stomach from wear
ing out we might live on for.
ever" The stomach will
rever wear out with such
Wheat Germ
Meal,
that popular breakfast
cereal. It's food for the
BODY; food for the brain; old
people like it; young people
like it; babies like it; every
body likes it better than they
ever liked oatmeal; and 10
minutes will cook it. IL you
nave never tried it do so
now. 2-lb packages 15c.
Sold by all grocers.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22

The educational system" of the Green
Mountain State is not, it appears, in the very
best condition. There are over four hundred
school districts in Vermont which have less
than dozen regular scholars apiece. There
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22

The cases on the docket of the Supreme
court of the United States continue to gain
on the capacity of that body to dispose of
them. The court is more behindhand by
several hundred cases than it was a year ago.
It has now an accumulation of probably
more than three years. work on hand. Some
thing should be done, and that soon, to
change this state of things. 1t has existed
much too long.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
COMMUNICATIONS.

INTERPRETATIONS and Inconsistency
of Some Advocates of the Exclusive
Policy of the American Board of
Foreign Missions.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22

The American Rent Equity association of
Chicago is the latest plan to make poor men
rich A body of men-say thousand-are
to pay So each and form an association with
$1,000 capital. They buy five cottages for
the money, and five of the thousand enter
into possession at a rental of $3.50 monthly,
besides life insurance due. The life insur-
ance is to be paid at death to the society.
Fair life insurance is worth not less than $40
a s., 900 or 81, % month. The tenants also
pay fee of $40. Thus, outside of the fee,
the rent of a cottage is $7.75 monthly, and
nothing is said of taxes or repairs. These
would raise the rent to $3.50 Providing the
officers charged little or nothing for their
services, the plan would be profitable
move for the members who accepted none of
its fbenefts.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22

The Western Union company evidently in
tends to move carefully in changing its rates
now that it has the public again in it's grip.
But it is highly probable that the public will
have to pay for the Baltimore and Ohio, and
for what else the Western Union wants.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
te gnnrna1 and Courier


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guarantee of good faith
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Obituary notices. in prose or verse, is cents per
line. Notices OF Births, Marriages. Deaths and fI-
neras, 2a cts each. Local Notices 20 cts. per line
half =
Yearly advertisers are limited TO their own irnme
diate business, tall matter be unobjectionabe)
and their contracts do not include W ants, To Let
For Sale.
Special rates furnished application for contracts
covering considerable length of time. or large
spaca
Yearly advertisements ar the following rates:
One square. one year, $40; two squares. one year,
SO; three squares, one year, 800.
DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CRY, 10
CENTS A WEEK, so CENTS MONTH, $500
FOB SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. TIE SAMH
TERMS By MAIL u
Saturday,, October %, 1857.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22

Oberstein, Germany, prospers in the work
of making bogus jewelry and fixing up pre-
cious stone to look well. Nearly the whole
population is engaged in such work. Differ
ent families have their different modes of
treatment, and some families have the secret
of some one or another special tint which can
be made nowhere else. Chsloedony Is the
usual base of false onyxes and sgates, which
are most counterfeited. The stones are boiled
in the coloring matter and then subjected to
intense heat. The color permeates the whole
stone One family has the-secret of convert
ing crocidolite into "cat's eyes" Gypsum
and hornblende are also made into the same
gems Tircons, which are cheap stones OF
silicon and zirconia, have the color washed
out and are apparently diamonds until tested.
A thin slice of diamond is laid over topaz
SO that the whole appears to be one gem.
Emeralds are easily initiated. Many stones
sold as rubies are only red spinel and
much of the lapis lazuli is only dyed chal-
cedony.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22

lating to such action as that taken at Spring
field, "The movement of thought in this age
Is as Indifferent to it as an ironclad pea
shooter" LAYMAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Higgins-Eugene-i very quiet just now.
It is good time for him to be quiet.
There is good deal of talk about the
western real estate fbooms," but the inhab-
itants of the substantial western cities say
there are no dangerous booms in them, and
they make a strong showing in support of
their assertions Time will tell.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
ANOTHER Doc STORY.

Mr.. w. A. Dills tells US another,
not of sagacity but of affection
Mr.. Hudson Coward, of Jackson
county, had a little daughter about
eight years Of age. There was on
the premises an i'll natured young
dog, intractable cross and vicious, oil
whom every one was afraid. The
dog resented all approaches to fa4
miliarity by any of the family. The
little girl above mentioned at last
won his heart, and his attachment
became intense. He was at her
side at all times and watched her
every look with fond anxiety. She
was taken sick with her fatal liz
ness. The dog lay at the door con-
tinua!ly watching earnestly every
sign from within. The child died,
and was borne to the grave. The
dog followed the sad procession,
looked down into the deep and
dark resting place, whined pitt
fully, and moved around in de-
spairing agony as the earth was
heaped upon her whom he had
loved so well and the friends of the
child turned for their homes, the
dog took his place upon the grave,
and never again left it. He could
not be coaxed nor driven away, re-
fused all food, and in a few days
died of grief and starvation.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
.1siIEvILLE sOCIETIEs .


A.. A.. s.. Kite ;Ndsons.--J. Wakefield Cort
land, SD deg, Deputyot the Inspector General
for North Carolina.
CyreHe U6armGHdery, No. 81. A. Porser Eminent
Commander; Jordan Stone, Secretary. Meets first
"Wednesday night in each month.
AsheUiJe Chapter, X. A. Nh. c. Fagg High
Priest; i. HammershlaG, Secretary. Meets
he second Wednesday night in each month.
~. HermOH L1dCe. No. lis. Il. +. q A. M
~. Blair Worshipfll Master; - Blanton
Secretary. Meets the 5rst Friday night in each
SlSaHnamoa Lodge, K. Of d., No. 6ls. = E
Levy, Dictator Jordan Stone, Secretary
Meeis the Grst and third Monday nights in each
!, me sch Broad Council, No. 7O1, r. As. Ii
pin Wy, Regent; Jordan Stone, Secretary. Meet!
In &C hall of the Knights of Honor on the second
the fourth Monday nights in each month.
AslcUille Lodge A. F. 4 4. A, y. D.-J Wake
tel Cortland, w. NJ; J. A. Conant, Sec. Meeti
~: Masonic Hall third THURSDAY night in each
month at O'Clock. and 1st and 4th Thursday
night for instruction.
The AslLeUiue Public Library, over Mr.. KEEP
Ier's Siore, opposite Eagle Hotel, and next
l1or 10 Tie Bank Of AsheVllle is open to Wis
.ars from 10 q. m. to p. m. and from 4:3O to
$50 r. m.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
FROM KNOXVILLE TO MURPHY.

Capt. Jas. w. Cooper, who called
to see us yesterday on his return
from Knoxville, informs US that il
appears to be definitely settled that
the Knoxville Southern will make
its connection with the North Geor-
gia and Marietta at Murphy. This
is as it should be; for we cannot i'm
agiIe that Knoxville, in its active
and manly rivalry for business,
would lose the hold it would un-
doubtedly have upon the products
of Cherokee and Clay counties in
this State, and towns and other rich
counties in Northern Georgia. We
regard the Murphy terminus at set
tleb.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
\ LETTER OF CoMMESpAT1oN


The following letter complimentary TO
the u. ID. s. Allen s. Co IS Aromatic Elk.
ir speaks for itself:
MARSHALL, N. e. Aug. 18th. 's7.
The G; D. s. Allen Co, Waynesville.
NC..
Sirs: 1t is with pleasure that certify
to the curative properties of your Aromat.
lc Ellxlr. have used it personally in
severe case of obstinate diarrehra. and T
simply tell the truth when say ''it acted
like charm" During theEpresent sum.
mer the fiux was very prevalent and yerv
fatal in Burke county and for the benefit
of my neighbors down there, l ordered
some by Express from Messrs, Lawson &
Lance of Marshall. On my way home I
met a neighbor much excited, on his wav
to hnd some remedy for his little child
who had been suffering from flux for two
weeks and was very low. gave him
bottle. Upon meeting him two DAYS aftr-
wards he told me the child was entirely
recovered. 1t consider it as o great bless.
ing to the human family, and hope you
may scatter it far and wide.
Respectfully,
daW A. ]. MCALPINE.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
Labor Day at. Boston E.l. and
New York.
MEETING OF THE INTER.
! NATIONAL MEDICAL CON-
GRESS AT WASHING
TON CITY.
Labor Day in Boston anu New York.
lBy telegraph to the Asheville Citizeo.I


lBy telegraph to the Asheville Citizeo.I
BosFoN, Sept: 5.-There is almost
a general suspension of business. A
large influx of suburban visitors
and a grand procession of working
meH marked the celebration of the
early hours of the labor day in this
city. The procession was much
larger one than in the labor DEM
onstration of last year with the diff
ference that is to days parade a
majority of the parties are
trade Unionist, while last year
more than half of the men, were
Knights of Labor. During the af-
ternoon there will be six monster
picnics, and in the evening I. unms
Der of gatherings under the auspices
of the various charitable societies.
New YORK, Sept. 5.-Labor day
being legal holiday, all down town
exchanges, banks, bankers, and bro
kers' Offices and down town officers
were closed generally. Many other
business houses also closed up for
the day, but some have to remain
open. Courts and public departs
ments were closed, and the business
of the municiple department was
at stand-still.
Flags foated from many buildo
ings, throughout the city in honor
of the day, and the streets were
througeti with sight>seers from an
early hour, The Labor parade was
the feature of the day. Full $4,000
men, belonging to nearly ever trade
organization in the city, were in
live. John Marion, carpenter and
a master warkman of Knights of
Labor, was grand marshal.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06

Read the advertisement "Situa'
ton Wanted"
Weather warmer yesterday, with
indications of coming rain.
Our Mr., Furman is in attendance
on Pennsylvania Court this week.
Capt. Mcintosh of Wavnesville
favored US with call yesterday af,
ternoon.
The G. D. S. Allen Co. find ready Sale
for their valuable medicine, ALIENS
Aromatic Elixir"
Zachary and Zachary have three
hudred fat sheep on hand as safe
guard against famine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement Manly,
of Newbern, are in the city, guests of
the Battery Park Hotel.
The Rev. C. J. Curtis, son of the
distinguished divine and naturalist,
DR.. M. A. Curtis, was in the city
yesterday morning.
The Hildebrand property advertised
for sale at II o'clock Monday the 5th was
offered and postponed for want of bidders
to II o'clocF Tuesday the 9th. Sale at
Court House to-day.
The Arlington House at Hender-
sonville has few nice rooms for
guests. Hendersenville is one of
the most pleasant towns in the Wes-
tern part of the Statewide streets
and shady sidewalks which never
get muddy. 2aw 2w.
Attorney General Davidson is in
the city. He has recently returned
from New York, where, as repreS
sentative of the Executive of North
Carolina, he had been in conference
with representatives of other States
to arrange satisfactory system of
Interstate extradition.
Mr.. w. A. Dills of Webster Sta
ton called to see US yesterday. His
little town is one of the creations of
the railroad, and though not grow
ing rapidly, is improving steadily
and substantially. It has its church
and school house, it's stores and its
work shops, its steam saw mill and
it's large lumber business; and more
over its hotel with a table as boun~
titul and luxurious as appetite could
exact. Near the hotel is a mineral
spring destined to become famous.
Mr.. Dills is having an analysis made
in Baltimore, and will soon give us
the results.
The Rev. Mr.. Alsop of St AIMS
Episcopal church, Brooklyn, N. Y,
held services in the parlor of the
Battery Park Hotel Sunday even
ing, the attendance composing both
guests of the house and citizens.
Good music with piano accompaniA
ment was rendered by an excellent
improvised choir, and the sermon,
or rather informal lecture of the re-
verend gentleman, was spiritual and
sometimes eloquent, and calcula-
tive of good lessons and furnishing
material for long and deep thought.
This was the first of their services
in the hotel this season. Last year
they were frequent. They are all
ways looked to with much interest.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
THE THREE Cis Roam.

Capt. Thomas Mcfarland. long
on the w. N. c. Road, but now en-
gagged on the above, was in the city
yesterday. He informs US that
trackiaying was to have begun at
Camden, S., G., yesterday morning,
about seven miles being ready for
the rails. The whole road is npder
contract, and gangs of hands are
distributed along its whole length
and hard at work, giving promise
Of a speedy ''all rail'' connection-be.
tween Rutherfordton and Charles
ton, S. c.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06
CRocKERY, Glassware, CHINA. WHOLE.


CRocKERY, GLASSWARE, CHINA, WHoLKs
SALE AND RETAIL,
At the City China Emporium, No. l2
Patton Avenue, largest and most com.
plete assortment in the State. We are
adding largely to our immense stock, and
are now prepared to save you freight on
every thing in the line Of Crockery and
Glassware.
Just received full line of library and
stand lamps, and new designs in French
and German China. Give US a call and
SdUe money.
See our bargain and 10cts counter.
We also call your attention to our Stove
and rinware Department, in which line
we are manufacturers, keep constantly
on hand a full and complete assortment
of Tinware. Stoves, Rangers and Heaters;
sole agents for the celebrated Farmer
Girl Cook, the leader of all stoves. Give
us call before you buy your heating
stoves, we will save you money.
Special attention paid to Roofing and
Guttering, satisfaction guaranteed.
For standard goods and lowest prices,
w. G.. KELLER & Co.,
IL Patton Avenue.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-06

Just received, some new goods consist
ing of very handsome box paper, prices
from 10c up to $1.00, new style Inkstand
and Ink combined I0c. lot of memoran-
dunn, and time books, new brands of
writing paper, paint boxes, slate, slate
and lead pencils, visiting and playing
cards and many other attractive articles;
E. P. Poe's Fell in Love with his Wife,
and the Hornets Nest. 25c each; Duchess
last book; all of Hoggard's novels. A lot
of humorous books by Nye. Peck and
other celebrated writers.
Daily papers and magazines always on
sale. Subscriptions received for week,
month or year, at Carson's Stationery
and News Store, N. Main st.